* Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies
@ 2011-09-09 15:01 Daniel E. Doherty
2011-10-22 10:43 ` Bastien
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From: Daniel E. Doherty @ 2011-09-09 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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All,
I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
dollar values with commas.
For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
which I don't believe is what one would expect.
It can be fixed by customizing the variable org-table-number-regexp,
like so:
^\([<>]?\(\$ *\)?[-+^.,0-9]*[0-9][-+^.0-9eEdDx()%:]*\| ... \)$
^^^^^^^^ ^
Adding the underlined parts.
My question is should this not be the default, perhaps with the Euro
symbol and other likely currency symbols added in?
Regards,
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* Re: Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies
2011-09-09 15:01 Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies Daniel E. Doherty
@ 2011-10-22 10:43 ` Bastien
2011-10-22 14:07 ` Daniel E. Doherty
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From: Bastien @ 2011-10-22 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel E. Doherty; +Cc: Org-mode List
Hi Daniel,
Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
> I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
> numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
> dollar values with commas.
>
> For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
> which I don't believe is what one would expect.
To me, values that are right-aligned are those who are ready for further
computation, and letting $3 be right-aligned would be confusing.
But I understand your need.
Carsten, what do you think?
--
Bastien
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* Re: Alignment Regexp Should Recognize Currencies
2011-10-22 10:43 ` Bastien
@ 2011-10-22 14:07 ` Daniel E. Doherty
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From: Daniel E. Doherty @ 2011-10-22 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: Org-mode List
Bastien,
I thought this issue was going to die. Thanks for reviving it. I am
still interested and would love to hear Carsten's views.
Maybe numeric fields could have the grouping character (,) and currency
symbols stripped before being used for coumputation?
Regards,
At Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:43:55 +0200,
bzg wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
>
> > I noticed that the regular expression for recognizing what columns are
> > numeric in a table for purposes of right-aligning does not pick up
> > dollar values with commas.
> >
> > For example, $23,821,415.18 would be treated as "text" and left-aligned,
> > which I don't believe is what one would expect.
>
> To me, values that are right-aligned are those who are ready for further
> computation, and letting $3 be right-aligned would be confusing.
>
> But I understand your need.
>
> Carsten, what do you think?
>
> --
> Bastien
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